Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 4, 1909, Page 1

THE OMAHA BEE Eoes to the homes—is read by the women-—pells goods for advertisers. VOL. XXXVIIT--NO. ALDRICH AND STONE CLASH Senator from Missouri Criticises Rhode Islander’s Reference to German Government, IATTER RESENTS THE CHARGE | Says His Remarks Were Directed at «German Manufacture- DEBATE CONSUMES T1 —~—— Senator Depew Also B volved in Controve SHARP CRITICISM BY LAFt Badger State Sdnator Awseri Finance Uommittee Withheld Information from the Senat WASHINGTON, June 3—The senate was not In dniamiable state of mind today and as consequence there were several clashes of temper, The day was hegun with a speech by Sematof Stone of Missouri, in which he asserted that the German offi- clals had faken exeeption to remarks re- cently made by Senator Aldrich relative to the wage statement supplied by the German - government At the request of the American secretary of state. Mr. Ald rich had oharacterized as “impertinen: the effort, which he claimed had been made in that statement to Influence Ameri- can tariff legislation and Mr. Stone under- took to show that the epithet had heen ap- plied to the German government. Mr. Ald- rich resented thix impllcation but he re- peatedly raid that the German manufactur- ers had undertaken to influence the courne of the tariff bill and he éharged that in so doing they had been guilty of impertinence. During the course of his remarks Mr. Aldrich intimated that Mr. Stone was act- ing as @ rvepresentative of Germany and this remark aroused the anger of tho Missourfan. Declaring his right to epeak his mind as an American senator, he said the use of the expression was “a gross im- pertinence.” The colloquy, consumed almost three hours of \ime. Ultymately Mr. Aldrich pald a high compliment to the German people and thelr emperor and the incident closed for the day Wwith the gtatement by Mr. Stone that while Mr. Aldrich and Mr Depew, wha also had been involved in the controversy had not made a straightfer- ward retraction as he had belleved they should. they had so “sugarcoated the dose as to relieve it of Its bitter taste.” Critietsm by La Follette. Following the Aldrich-Stone episode, Senator 1a Follette resumed his speech in opposition to the cotton schedule, which proved te be a general criticism af the methiodg.of. the. Gapmitiee. He as- sérted that ‘the~ an wage report had, “ogutrary 10 a statement by Mr. Aldrich, the committee before the tariff bill was reported to the senate and he charged the committee with general neg- lect in withholding information from the senate. He opposed the new cotton dutles as ex- cessive and made &n argument in favor of a general sealing down. Towards the close of the afternoon ses- sion Mr. La Follette became quite ex- hausted and an effort was made to obtain permission for him to suspend and resume again tomorrow. Senator Aldrich took ad- vantage of the ingident to make an effort to! obtain an agreement to vote on the cotton schedule at a fixed hour tomorrow. In this he was unéuccessful and after ten or fifteen minutes of recuperation the Wisconsin senator proceeded. At 5:30 the senate recessed until 8 o'clock! Stone and Aldrich Clash. Senator Aldrich's characterization of the course of any government, which might send to this couptry any anonymous state- ment enncerlllll: prices In the forelgn country with a view of Influencing legls- latlon was made the subject of an acri- mottlous calloquy in the senate today be- tween Mr. Aldrich and-Senator Stone. The previous remark of Mr. Aldrich was based upon the fact that in response to & fequest from our own State department, the German authorities had forwarded to this government Statements of manufac- turers concerning the rate of wages In Germany, with a request that the names of the manufacturers be not used. Benator Stone brought up the question soon after the senate convened by reading a telegram from \Berlin declaring the Ger- man government had taken offense at Mr. Aldrich's langudge because of the import- ant position he oceuples in his party and in congress. Reading from Mr. Aldrich's eriginal remarks, Mr. Stone said: “When the senator from Rhode Island made that somewhat petulant and extraordinary declaration, every one here took notice, &nd 1 think every one regarded his utter- @nce as impolitic If wot impolite.” Aldrich Denies Charge. Mr. Stone sald he was not surprised that Germany had taken notice of this ut- terance and felt offendei. by it. Mr. Aldrich, who had listened a'tentively to the words of the Missouri senator, arose and sald; “1 made no charge against the German government. 1 was talking about German mabufacturers, whose names were kept from us and who furnished Information with the express understanding that it was not to be used In the enforcement of our customs laws. The scdator may consider that information of value. I do not. There 18 10 qhestion about the German govern- ment here at all. The German govern- it forwarded these statements with the t understanding that they wers not 1o be 1o raise the invoice value of goods nnrz"' nto the United States contrary to Olr laws, I répeat that any attempt on Whe part of any government to Influence legislation on the tariff matter is imperti- nent. I did 'not say the German govern mlent made such an attempt, but if any government made such an attempt it would be impertinent." Mr. Stone.ls that the senator from Rbode 1sland referred to the German government as impertinent, again read the sldtcinent made by Mr. Aldrieh as it ap- peared (o the record. 1 was not discussing the German government in that regard, Sul was referring to various statements be- fore the committde,” said Mr. Aldrich, w Mided with energy, “the senator is mis- "1 &m not mistaken,” insisted Mr. Stone. 305 THE OMAHA DaAILY BEE OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 4, 1510971‘]']4\' PAGES. SINGLE Escaped Convict Takes on Role of Millionaire Romantic Career of Charles Harding Closes with Disclosure After Marriage with Belle. BAINBRIDGE, Miss., June 3.—It Charles Harding, alias A. D. Oliver, just five months and three days to run the social gamut from escaped convict thfough the roles of promoter, millionaire, envied bridegroom of ‘south Georgia and back to the penitentiary again. The climax came today, when Sheriff Jones of Monroe county, Mississippl, arrived here and iden- tiffed A. D. Oliver as the Charles Harding who escaped from his eustody on December 31 last. Harding, said the sheriff, had eleven years to serve in Mississippl for ob- taining money under false pretenses. Early in January “Oliver appeared at Climax, Ga., near here, and the report was spread that he was worth $5,000,000. He posed as a capitallst, bought lumber mills and timberlands and established a bank at Climax. At the height of his success “Ol- fver” married Miss Rose English A few days ago “Oliver” was arrested charged with swindling the people of Cli- max out of many thousands of dollars, his bride filed suit for divorce and one of his employes In the Climax bank was threat ened with lynching after “Oliver’” had been placed in jafl here. News of his arrest at- tracted the attention of the Mississippl au- thorities. toolk Dr. Cleminson Changes Front Stops Talking About Death of Wife and Will Fight Every Step. CHICAGO, June 8<Police Captain Kane sald today he had practically abandoned hope of securing any further admissions from Dr. Haldane Cleminson, charged with the murder of his wife. “Dr. Clemingon has secured an attorney and apparently has made up his mind to fight every inch of the case against him," said Captain Kane. “We are now investi- ating several clues, among them the doc- tor's alleged relations with women. There are many of thess, and we have learned that Dr. Cleminson made no secret of them 10 his wite, except that he used no names.” Although Judge Clitford refused to re- lease the prisoner on a writ of habeas cor- pus yesterday, it is sald a new move Is being planned in the courts before another udge; probably on the grounds that there is no legal evidence on which to hold the accused physician. Meanwhile the police plan to remove the prisoner from the po- lice station to the county fall. Two detectives from the state’s attorney’s office were detailed today to assist Captain in his {nvestigations. Harriman Stocks Go Soaring Sonthern Pacific Leads in Furious Bull Flurry on New York Exchange. NEW YORK, June 3~Furious buying of Southern Pacific rallroad stock was the leading feature of a sudden revivial of speculation In the stock market today. In- terest w congested in a few prominent stocks, notably the Harriman-Pacifics and United States Steel. A sudden upward rush of nearly 6 points in Southern Pacific had an impressive effect on the whole market. It was unexpifiined by any news, but rumors of an intendeé¢ I{ncrease in dividends and of a proposition to retire the preferred stock figured in the gossip in- duced by the spectacular movement. The buying was accreditted to inside sources and showed no evidence of coming from a public demand. United States Steel stock continued its remarkable advance and touched new high levels within a fraction of 6. Preparation for the Introduction of this stock to the Paris bourse were held to account for its strength. The whole market was strang and active, but nothing like the extent of these leading speculative favorites. el o SR D ROOSEVELT GOES TO KIABE All Members of Party Will Visit the American Mission and Spend Night in Cam NATRORBI, British East Africa, June 3.— Theodo~e Roosevelt and all the members of his party left Nalrobi on a special train at 1:15 this afternjon for Kijabe, where he will visit the American mission and spend the night in camp. The departure for the Sottk district will be made tomorrow. Missouri Pacifi Laughs a The Missouri Pacific just laughs at the business men of Omaha wio dare protest its action In cutting off several miles from the switching district of this city and gets 5o tickled over the joke that it can't take the thing seriously. When called “on the carpet” before the august State Rallway commission this Gould road ‘govers its broad smile with one hand and with the other shoves a bashful boy in its employ onto the witness stand as its sole representative to answer the profound questions pronounced by the commission or the business men and thelr attorneys as to why this switching district was thus ruthlessly eircumscribed. When all these serious business men, With their attomeys, had assembled betora the Nebraska Rallway commission Wednes- day, bringing with them manufacturers from Chicago and stockmen from South Omaha, the Missouri Pacific Rallway com- pany put O. E. VanDorn, a clerk in the Omaha office, on the stand to explain why the rates for switching cars on the Beit line were not remunerative and how the company was losing so much money, that because of lack of locomotive power it lost 40,000 train miles during January—or something like that. Mr. Vi was evidently embartassed ‘whea he Be was the only repressnta- |BIG STRIKE Traction Tieup Will Be Settled Soun. AGREEMENT 1S 1IN SIGHT Extended Conference. MORE RIOTING DURING DAY Second Outbreak of Sympathizers Comes During Noon Hour. OFFICER SHOT, HUNDRED HURT Mob Resents Arrival of Strike Brea ers and Refgn of gerror Fol- in ‘Which Property is Burned. lows, BULLETIN, PHILADELPHIA, June 3.—Mayor Rey- burn stated at 6:30 this evening that the | strike would be settled within an hour This is believed to be the result of & conference held this afternoon between State Senator McNichol, the republican leader, Director Clay. Mavor Reyburn and the representatives of the trolley men. BULLETIN. PHILADELPHIA, June 3.—Mayor Rey- burn sald this afternoon that developments were expected that might end the strike at any minute. It is believed arbitration is in sight, as Senator MeNichol, the re- publican leader of this city, has taken an active part In the consultations today be- tween city officials and representatives of the transit company, and it is belleved the political heads are fearful their eause will injured by a prolongation of the strike. All saloons in the clty have been ordered closed at 6 o'clock tonight. PHILADELPHIA, June 38—Conditions were quieter this morning in Philadelphia, following last night's riotous outbreak in certaln sections, when the Philadeiphia Rapld Transit company put into effect its order to run cars after nightfall, a thing that has not been attempted since the strike of its motormen and conductors began last Saturday. At 11 o'clock C. O. Pratt, the strike leader, announced that he had called out the elevated and subway men and that % per cent of the service on that system was tied up. The company claims there is no strike; thut two crews quit and their places were. filled. It s understood that some of the men who stopped work this morning returned to their trains when as- sured of protection. Ample police protec- tion now accompanies each train. toth During the noon hour when the streets were filled’ with men and boys employ by business houses there were several dis- turbances that bordered on riot. One block from the postoffice a crowd surrounded a car, dragged the motorman and con- ductor off and beat them, and for a while the air was filled with missiles. The win- dows and show cases of a drug store were smashed. Wom@h passengers in the car cronehed, terrified, on the floor while the car windows were being smashed. A po- liceman was hit on the head by a brick and serfously hurt. On a riot call & pa- trol wagon filled with policemen scatterd the crowd and made several arrests. All of those injured in iast night's rioting will recover. About 100 are under treatment in hospitals. The station houses were filled to overflowing With persons arrested for riotin As illustrating the ugly feeling engen- dered by last night's rioting there were more minor disturbances this = morning probably than at any time since the strike began. The strike syhpathizers devoted their énergies to the harrassment of the strike breakers and others who are run- ning the comparatively few cars that are on the street. Each car carries one or more policemen, but few passengers, the public evidently being afrald to ride. Thousands walked from cholce, however, as & means of “getting even” with the traneit company for its recent increase in the rate of fare. ~ Four hundred additional were sworn in this morning. Timothy O'Leary, assistant superinten- dent of police, who has been In active | charge of the policing of the city since the strike began, sald today that if necessary to preserve order 10,000 extra men would be enrolled for police duty. Hundred Hurt in Riot, One policeman shot and probably fatally Injured, nearly a hundred persons bruised and battered, either by policemen or strike sympathizers, s the result of the attempt - Page.) subpolicemen (Continued ou Second ¢ Simply t Business Men tive of the company to defend the position in the Belt line switching cases Wwhich have already cost the 'Omaha business the Missourl Pacific is never quite ready. After Mr. VanDorn had ¢one his best to fix up some”reasons which his superiors have thus far failed to do, Attorney J. H. VanDusen asked: “How old are you, young man?’ Burlington officlals laughed. Mr. Van- Dorn looked stlll more embarraseed and appealingly at Commissioner Clarke. “We insist that the young man teil his age,’ sald the attorney, with & fierce gleam In his eye.” But VanDorn stood pat. He did not see where the age fit into the cost of switching cars to Portal, Ral- ston and other points on the Belt line, and he said s0 with a real saucy stamp of his foot, which Indicated that he would break up the attorney's umbrells and pray for rain if the impudent question was pressed much further. | "It was a burlesque on & hearing.” said | one of the shippers. “As usual the Mis- | souri Pacific was not ready, and another hearing 18 1o be held June 3. VanDorn | was the only one to represent the Mis- :munmu&_flnmwuhw |3 yoars of agw NEAR AN END Mayor Reyburn of Philadelphia Says Agents of Conflicting Interests Hold men considerable time and money because | QUEER PLEA FOR MERCY Former Detective Hardin Asks Parols Before Commitimnent. MORIARITY GETS SIX MONTHS Posse of Armed Men Scouring Viein- ity of Lloyd Station in Search of Scouudrel Who Attacked School Girl. (From a Staff Correspondent.) | DEE MOINES, Jyne 3.—Governor B. F. Carroll was today asked to parole, before commitment to the penitentiary for a three-year sentence, former Chietf of De- tectives Ell Hardin, who Is now working on the police force In San Diego, (al Hardin claims that his wife is seriously Il and that he has two invalld sons. If he . is sent to the penitentiary, he says, they will be thrown on the county. He says that he {s willing to return and begin sen- tence at once if the governor denies his request for a pardte. — % . Moriarity Gets Off Easy. But for the intercession and pleading of the two women who have suffered because of his perfidy, Frank J. Morlatty would Senator Brown Throws Scare Into Leaders Nebraskan Will Offef Amendment to Put Wood Pulp and Paper on Free List, (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, June 3.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Senator Norris Brown, who has been making a very exhaustive study of Wwood pulp and print paper, gave notice to the senate today that he would move an amendment to schedule M putting wood pulp and print paper on the free list. Sena- tor Brown, who has been heard but very seldom in debate on the tariff, believes that there is ground for a reduction which should be made under the bill now being considered. He has studied not only the technical questions involved, but has made an analysis of the Mann eammisgion re- port, which he belleves s far-reiching in 1ts conclusions. Today in conservation with Senator Aldrich, Senator Brown learned that the finance committee would probably advance rates on wood pulp and print paper over the house bill. The junior senator then have been sentenced to a long term in the penitenttary when he stood up before Judge Joseph E. Miller in the criminal division of the district court Thursday mornin and entered a plea of guilty to the indict- ment charging him with bigamy. As It was, Judge Miller was moved by the prayers of the two wives of Moriarity, and after administering a slight “burn” to the self-confessed criminal, sentenced him to six monthe in the county jafl. The court could have Imposed fifteen years in the penitentiary. Armed Men Chasing a Scoundrel, Armed with shotguns, a posse of ira cltizens 1s in search of a man sald to be about 30 years of age, who this merning attempted an assault on Mildred Kelsey, 14-year-old daughter of Willilam Kelsey, proprietor of the Senate saloon, 407 East Sixth street. The assault, Which is one of the boldest reported to the local police in recent years, occurred in broad day- light at 8:3 this morning, near Lioyd Sta- tion. The Kelsey home is only a half mile north of Grand View Park, and Mildred was on her way to attend school when she was pounced upon by the man. She put up a brave struggle and,~by biting one of her assallant's fingers, succeded in free- Ing herself unharmed B. & O. Machinists | Call Strike Today| { General Walkout of Men in All Shops | of that Railroad is Or- dered. BALTIMORE, Md, June 3.—A general strike of machinists in all the shops of the Baltimore & Ohio rallroad has been ordered to take effect at 2 p. m. today. This action, It was stated at the machin- Ists' headquarters here today, is the re- sult of the Introduction of the plece work system In the erecting departments of the Mount Claire shops, which led to the strike of machinists there a few weeks ago and what the men claim was equivalent to a refusal of the compauy at the conference yesterday between Vice President Potter and their representatives to reinstate the Mount Claire men. [ quietly stated'to Senator Aldrich that he would “offer an -amendment as outlined above. Senator Frye, who was sitting near and overheard the conversation between Sena- tors Brown and Aldrich, exclaimed, “Good God, that will ruln us,” when he heard Brown serving notlve on the chairman of the finance committee that he would in- sist on wood pulp and print paper going on the free list. | ATHEISM BARRED BY LAW! Duma Committee Act Requires Every Person in Russia to Positive Fai ST. PETERSBURG, June 3.—The second law on the government's program of re- liglous liberty will come up for discussion in the duma tomorrow and will cause an interesting debate between the defenders of orthodoxy and the liberals, in which Premier Stolypin is expected to take part. The' government draft placed certain re- strictions on the changing of one's faith, but the committee has introduced modifi- catlons removing all such restrictions, pro- vided the sect fs not crimfnal. The com- mittee has decided that every man must have a positive religlon, and that the pro- tession of athelsm can.not be allowed. NOTED GERMAN LIBERAL DEAD Dr. Theodore Barth, Who Made Study of Bryan Campaign, Vietim of In tion. BADEN-BADEN, Germany, June 3.—Dr. Theodore Barth, leadér of one of the rud- fcal parties in the German Refchstag, ‘died here last night of a malady of the digestive organs. He was born in 184. Dr. Barth had behind him thirty-tive years of work for liberalism in Germany. He had been styled a extreme radieal and for some years he had been the leader of that group in the Relchsta; Major Bundy Comes to Omaha, WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3.—(Speclal Telegram.)—Major Omar Bundy, inspepctor general, is relieved from duty as inspector general, Department of Texas effective July 15, will then proceed to Omaha for duty as assistant to inspector general, Department of Misgouri T0 PUSR BUTTER EXCHANCE Omaha Creamery Men Say Projeuti Easily Realized. PENEFIT TO INTERESTS IMMENSE | Creation of Primary Market Planned Which Will Handle 75 Per Cent o1 70,000,000 Founds of / Butter Annually A bulter exchange for Omaha fair way of being realized. Following the successful opening of the Alberty Tea, Minn, exchange Tuesday, Omaha creamery men have been actively | bestirring themselves and will continue to do so untfl the project for a local exchange comes into being. i David Cole, who attended the Albert Lea opening, wired The Bee last evening that buyers were present at Albert Lea from everywhere and that sales were made to wany points. “A hutter éxchange,” declared E. S Snively, “would behefit Omaha mmessely and 1t is not ohly a feasible project, but s In a For For Iowa—Partly For weathar |away WEATHER FORECAST. Nebraska—Falr and warmer, cloudy. raport see Page L 'l‘v\\'n ( ‘l-m:’l‘é. HELTON ESCAPE MADE IN MOTOR Fourth Union Pacific Bandit Ran Auto to Denver Following Train Robbery. SEEN AT TWO TOWNS ON ROUTE Kearney and North Platte Both Spotted Fugitive, cory WAS EXAMINED AT LATTER TOWN [Four Men Looked for and Suspeoct Not Held. TRIO IN OMAHA OLD CRIMINALS Detective Macdonald ldentifies Wood, Gordon of Spokane Torgenson and Having Had Records in Northweat. Identification of the thres Unfon Pacific bandits as far western criminals with dan- gerous records, and the discovery that James Shelton, the man arrested in Den- ver, went there in an auto, were the de- velopments yesterday In the train robbery affair, It is asserted that Shelton was seen both at Kearney and North Platte on his way to Denver in the car, and that he was sub- Jected to scrutiny in the latter town. North Platte, however, was looking for four men in a car, and Shelton was allowed to go on his way. tI is believed that he got with the contents of the mall sacks which were found the night gf the robbery Evidence seems also to point to the fact that Sheiton was the man who guided the auto to the scene of the holdup, and there 1it the signal beacon which led Woods and Torgensen to make Engineer Mikeljoho bring the train to a stop. Private conferences hetween each holdug suspect and Detective Macdonkld of Spo kane were held at the county jall Thurs day afternoon. Macdonald would tell noth- ing of what was said or done and neither atfirmed or denfed the idea that a confee- slon was secured Assistant Special Agent John C. Vizzard of the Union Pacific and Chief Canada held a conference with the Spokane officer later in the afternoon. They yefused to divulge the details of the conference. andity Identified. Detective Macdonald positively identified Woods, Torgensen and Gordon soon after his arrival. . lle arrived in Omaha Thureday morning ond went to the bandits' cells about 10:30 o'clock. He knew the three men o well and they so quickly reallzed the position his fdentification placed them in, that all merely laughed and said nothing at first. Woods Is the notorious safe blower, train robber and bandit, Dan Downer, of the northwest, according to Detective Muos donald, who has known of him for eighieen years. He is alco suspected of the Midway murder in British Columbia. Torgensen 1s known by that name aroiind Spokane #ha" | has a number of erihes charged against “1t would benefit the producer of butter and cggs, If ineludng (he latten, as much | as the Grain exchange has helped men who | ralse wheat in this part of the world. | Values will be decidedly more stable, be- cause the eastern markets are ofen man- ipulated and prices artificially fixed so that they do not respond to the real salable i prices. The price for butter on the Chicago| exchange for instance, last year at one| time, was fully 1 cent less than the actual | galable price of the commodity at that| time. | “If Omaha had a butter and egg exchange it would add very materially to the dairy| |interests of a great range of territory. | | There are creameries in St. Joseph, Sioux City, Wichita—to name only three places- which are dependent upon centers well to the east to market their surplus, and buy- ers go to Chicago and New York to make their purchases.- “Seventy-five per cent of the butter of this territory 18 shipped each to Chicago and New York and there sold. It can all | be sold from Omaha. Big buyers wouid | flock here in numbers and would establish officcs here and start accounts In Omaha banks. There s no less than 70,000,000 pounds of butter produced annually in this | territory and most of it goes far away be- fore being sold. It is the same proposition as confronts the Wyoming wool grower, except that ft will be easier to create a primary butter market her NATIONAL LAW THEIR MODEL Grocers’ Convention Committee Ad- vecates Amending State Stat- utes to Conform to It, | DETROIT, Mich., June 3.—Uniformity in pure food regulations ‘that the national pure food law as the standard was the glst of a resolution |presented today by the legislative committee of the National Wholesale Grocers' association, In conven- tion here. The resolution strongly adve- cates the amending of all state laws to | conform to the national act now in force, | | the elimination of statutory standards in | the Aifferent states, and the substitution of a syndicate of determining standards in | | conformity to the methods now In use by | the government. | Grain Market. MINNBAPOLIS, June 8.— WHEAT—July, | $1.2014; September, §1.10%; December, $1.077%; cash, 'No. 1 hard, $1.33@1.88%; No. 1 north- | ern, $1.82@1.52%; No. 2 northern, $1.30@1.30%; | No. 8 northern, §1.27%@1.29%, | Anything from a lost dog, to a min- ister to marry you, can be found on The Bee want ad pages. Variety is the spice of life, and our want ads are full of spice and full of life. Even if you are not looking for any- thing in particular, you will find them interesting. Have you read the wani ads yet todayt Tried to Extort Money from | | which Wife of Missing Chicagoan | CHICAGO, June 3.—Benjamin Miller, al- léged to have attempted to extort $300 from Mrs. Benjamin Porter, whose husband, a life insurance agent, disappeared myster- lously several weeks ago, was arrested here today. According to the police Mfller wrote an unsigned letter to Mrs. Porter stating that for $300 to be secretly left tucked over a doorknob at Taylor and Halsted streets, Mr. Porter would be re- turned to his home. This letter, like pre- vious ones of similar purport, Mrs. Porter turned over to the authorities. A woman dressed to resemble Mrs. Porter visited the address given in the letter early today 4nd did as requested with the money. Miller, it is charged, grabbed the money and started to run away. Detectives broke from hiding places and gave chase, tiring | several shots, and overhauling the fugitive | after an exctfing race. Miller told the | police he had been hired by a man to get | the money. This man he said he had met ouly a few days ago. The man maid he | had stabbed the husband of & woman who | was in love with him and that the woman | wanted to give him some money. He was | afraid to go for it, and paid Miller to do the job. The disappearance of Mr. been a mystery which has baffled the | police for several weeks. He carried with him $20 which he had collected for the | company which employed him. No trace of him has been discovered. | i Porter h | vear | occurred | nim. Gordon's real name is Gordoh M. Golden and he is known to have assoclated with Downer, Torgensen and other crfmin- | als in the northwest, although he comes of a good “family, his brother, Joe Golden, a | train vobber, being his only velatve who has a police record. Thinks He Knows Shelton. Detective Macdonald says he believes Charles R. Shelton, the fourth suspeot. who was arrested at Denver early Wednes- day, is really Bob Splain, a notorious horse | and cattie thlef, safe blower and bond jumper, who has done time in several peni- tentiaries. Shelton was identitied as Splain by the Spokane officer Thursday morning in Omaha by means of a picture, The three men In jail here expressed a desire to talk with Detective Macdonald again this afternoon and he will hold a private conference with them. It is ex- pected that something lmportant In the way of a confession, complete or partial, or a scheme whereby the prisoners may escape the maximum punishment by turn- ing witnesses against thelr partners still at Targe, may be broadhed and perhaps ar- ranged. “I knew them as soon as 1 saw them through the bars of their individual cells,” remarked Macdonald afterward. “And they knew me, for they made no ef- fort to evade identification and just put up their usual laughing stunt. “They're fierce fighters, at least Downer and Torgensen are,’ the detective con- tinued, recalllng encounters he has had with both men. “And Downer laughs, even when he is fighting you. That's a habit he always has.” Clever Oriminals, Although Downer and Torgensen are well known to both police and public at Epo- kane and Everett, Wash., and in the sur- rounding country. ay desperate criminals and gulity of many crimes, Detective Mac- donald declares they are so clever that nefther has served much time in prison for the offenses. They have been arrested a number of times in cases for which there 100, | was not enough evidence to corvict them, he says, yet the police knew positively that Downer and Torgensen were really gulilty. The only prison term Macdonald says | was ever served by Downer was a three- term at the Walla Walla (Wash.) penitentiary for horse stealing. He and Torgensen, who is said to have been his partner in orime for years, are wanted now at Waterville, Wash., for safe blow- ing and bond jumping and at Everett for carrying burglare’ tocls, besides being sus- pected of many othe! cases of safe blow- ing, train robbery «nd similar crimes cpnnot be definitely fastened to their record because they escaped without being captured Or even seen, 80 that a good description could be given of them. The murder Downer is believed to have comynitted was that of a storekeeper at Midway, British Columbia, who was held up in his stor robbed of considerable money and then killed in cold blood. 1t fall and there are nho wit- descriptions . extant Killed in Holdup. Downer is sald to have officers in & daring holdup in Stevens county, Washington, when his partner, Claude Wells, was also killed This is pointed out by Detective Macdonald to show that the Downer now in the Doug- las Jail 1w of the most perate characters now known to the west- ern police and comes of a family of erimi- last nesses or other A brother of been killed by county one | nats. The photographs, descriptions and rec-